A manual for health officers / by J. Scott MacNutt ... with a foreword by William T. Sedgwick.

  • MacNutt, J. Scott (Joseph Scott), 1885-
Date:
1915
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Credit: A manual for health officers / by J. Scott MacNutt ... with a foreword by William T. Sedgwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STILLBIRTHS (AS RELATED TO DEATHS) 4. Stillbirths should not be included in deaths. 5. Children born alive and living for any time whatever, no matter how brief, after birth, should not be classed as stillbirths, even though re- ported by the attending physicians or midwives as stillborn. 6. Whenever age, in days, hours, or minutes, is reported for a still- born child, or indicated by a difference between dates of birth and death, the registrar should secure a statement that will enable the case to be classed with certainty either as a stillbirth or as a death. If no additional information can be obtained, the statement of age should govern, and the case be compiled as a death, not as a stillbirth. PREMATURE BIRTHS 7. Premature births (not stillborn) should be included in total deaths (classified under International Title No. 151) [and in total births]. 8. Premature births (stillborn) should be classed under stillbirths, and should not be included in total deaths. 9. When a premature birth is reported as stillborn and an in- consistent statement of age (days, hours, minutes) is also given, the registrar should endeavor to secure a statement that will enable the case to be classed with certainty either as a stillbirth or as a death. If no additional information can be obtained, the statement of age should govern, and the case be compiled as a death, not as a stillbirth. 10. When a premature birth is reported with no statement of age (space left blank), the local registrar should endeavor to obtain a state- ment of age, or at least that the child was born alive; but, in the absence of any further data, the case should be compiled as a stillbirth. DEATHS OF NON-RESIDENTS 11.1 All deaths of transients or non-residents occurring in a state or city should be included in the tables of total deaths. and the adoption of definite rules of statistical practice, it is the sense of the Section on Vital Statistics of the A. P. H. A. that bulletins and reports may contain (1) a statement of mortality including deaths of all persons and for all causes with corresponding death rates, and (2) a statement of mortality based on deaths of residents only with corre- sponding death rates, which should be accompanied with a full expla- nation as to the exact class of cases and period of time of residence covered in the exclusions. It is to be hoped that some definitive ruling will be given in the near future. See also page 617 (rules pending) and the discussion on page 507 f. (note) of the present volume. — Author. 1 See preceding note.